Please meet at the EPA trailer at the Acid Lagoon Area west of the water treatment plant, at the intersection of Markland Avenue and South Berkley Road. A tour of current work areas will follow a short update by EPA and IDEM.

Continental Steel operated from about 1914 to 1986, when it filed for bankruptcy. A major local employer, the facility produced nails, wire and fencing from scrap metal. The site was added to EPA's Superfund National Priorities List in 1989.